Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority
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The Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority is an association dedicated to providing people in Northern Virginia with access to parks and nature reserves and to protect Northern Virginia's rich heritage of woods, meadows, lakes and streams from the threat of suburban sprawl. The Authority was organised in 1959.
The Park Authority today represents three counties (Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudoun) and three cities (Alexandria, Falls Church and Fairfax). It administers more than 10,000 acres (40 km²) of woodlands, streams and countryside.
The regional parks and other features administered by the Park Authority are:
- Bull Run Regional Park
- Hemlock Overlook Regional Park
- Bull Run Marina
- Fountainhead Regional Park
- Sandy Run Regional Park
- Occoquan Regional Park
- Pohick Bay Regional Park
- Gateway Regional Park
- Meadowlark Botanical Gardens
- Upton Hill Regional Park
- Cameron Run Regional Park
- Carlyle House Historic Park
- Potomac Overlook Regional Park
- Algonkian Regional Park
- Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park
- Brambleton Regional Park
- Red Rock Wilderness Overlook Regional Park
- Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park
- Temple Hall Farm Regional Park
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